Ethos Artist Stephen Mauldin | Inception Nebula | Acrylic Painting

Ethos Artist Stephen Mauldin | Inception Nebula | Acrylic Painting

Inception Nebula

Acrylic Painting

Artist Statement

Part of my artistic practice has always been to “play” with paint on a regular basis to learn more about its properties and potential. Ten years ago, I taped a super-fine straight pin to the end of a palette knife, dipped the pin in paint, cocked it back and slung the paint onto a piece of paper. The resulting mark just blew me away. Its defining characteristic was electric energy and it immediately struck me as the perfect visual signifier for string theory. I decided to use the mark in the expression of ideas I had been dealing with for years that deal with the “big picture”. (I had to create a new tool to create the mark since palette knives quickly broke due to metal fatigue.)

In this particular piece, and the others in the “Nebula” series it is a part of, I used the imagery of the physical universe (as revealed by the Hubble telescope) to create an image of the “universe of mind and spirit” as I envision it.

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